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Altshuler, who is Stanton professor of urban policy and planning, will take the reins of the school when current Dean Peter G. Rowe steps down on July 1, University President Lawrence H. Summers announced in an e-mail to school faculty and staff. The interim arrangement, in which Altshuler will lead the school until a new dean is selected and can begin, was also announced at a design school meeting last week...
Williams Professor of Urban Planning and Design Jerold S. Kayden and Vigier said they doubted not having a full dean would hurt the school...
Since the mid-20th century, the South African Nationalist government had implemented an official policy of racial segregation and white supremacy, forcing over a million South Africans to move from urban to designated rural areas...
...built environment is not easy to unbuild. In the late 1980s an architectural and city-planning movement called new urbanism grew to promote the construction of more densely developed and neighborly towns. It led to the construction of subdivisions, like Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Md., and the Disney-created town of Celebration, Fla., which were built from scratch along new-urbanist lines. The Urban Land Institute, a nonprofit group that studies planning issues, says 5% to 15% of new development in the U.S. is designed at least to some extent with pedestrians in mind...
...rubric to describe developments like City Place is "urban living centers. Opened in 2000, City Place was one of the first, but it has spawned imitators in San Jose, Calif., and Charlotte, N.C. And it has been a hit, drawing more than 7 million visitors a year. Ophthalmologist Todd Shuba, 34, used to choose where to spend his lunch break by which restaurant had the most convenient parking lot. These days he walks a half-mile at least three times a week to eat at one of nearly 20 restaurants at City Place. "I walk a lot further...